You've Tried A Few Spiritual Practices.
Are You Happy With The Results?
Get Back On Track
Get Back to Basics
A step by step, logical, and clear set of classes on the Buddha’s fundamental teachings.
Without understanding the basics
you'll never get anywhere.
True cessation of suffering is possible, and the Buddha’s teachings show the way. The problem is that too many Buddhist teaching systems get bogged down in religious language or sidetracked into psychology and metaphysics.
At All Rivers we specialize in explaining the core teachings in a logical step by step order, in plain English, so that you can really understand them and easily connect the dots to your own day to day life.
What we offer
Four consecutive 6 Week Courses. (Two week break in between)
Classes are 1.5 hours long starting at 7:30 pm on Wednesday evenings. On Zoom.
Series 1
Getting Started
This 6 week course starts with an overview of the Four Noble Truths, and then an in-depth exploration of each one, showing the logic and beauty of the Buddha’s insights and realizations.
Series 2
Going Further
Going Further builds on the work we did on Series 1, and goes into the Noble Eightfold Path with particular attention to the fundamentals of Right View, the first point of the Eightfold Path.
Series 3
Deeper & Deeper
Series 3 continues with in depth study of the logic of Impermanence, Dependent Arising, Cause & Effect, and Emptiness, and a deeper dive into the Noble Eightfold Path.
Series 4
All Done!
All Done is the beginning of flying on your own. We’ll discuss obstacles that may arise in your practice, questions that have come up, and practical tips for taking control of your practice.
Private Tutoring
1 hour long appointments with our main teacher, Bruce Hogen Lambson, are available for those who want to go deeper into these topics and terms. He can also help catch you up if you miss a class for whatever reason. Click the button below to see the available tutoring times and days.
$50 / hour.
About Bruce Hogen Lambson
I was born and raised in Seattle. I worked for companies there in the areas of industrial machinery and engineering and then had my own related businesses. I became interested in and began my Buddhist studies in 1994, primarily in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. In my extensive business travels around the West Coast I was able to visit many different Buddhist centers. In 1998 I met Genpo Merzel Roshi, the Abbot and resident Zen Master of the Kanzeon Zen Center in Salt Lake City.
I began attending retreats there over the next few years until, in 2003, I moved to Salt Lake City and entered training under Genpo Roshi as a full time student/resident of the Zen Center. I was ordained a Monk in 2005 and also served as Executive Director for Kanzeon Zen Center until 2010. During that time I traveled extensively throughout the United State and Europe with Genpo Roshi as he conducted Retreats, Workshops, and Seminars for literally thousands of people. I currently live in Sandy, Utah with my wife and daughter and have seen and felt the benefits of solid Buddhist study and practice in my own day-today life with family, friends, and coworkers. I have continued my training with Genpo Roshi and have his permission to teach others. I founded All Rivers in 2018 as a way to gratefully carry on the tradition and do my part to pass along my experience to others. It's my hope that I can be of benefit to my community by sharing my experience and knowledge of Buddhism, drawing on my study and practice of both Tibetan and Zen traditions.
